| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm) |
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text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Amber and the ancient world -- Jewelry: never just jewelry -- Amber magic? -- What is amber? -- Where is amber found? -- The properties of amber -- Ancient names for amber -- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception -- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber -- Amber and forgery -- The ancient transport of amber -- Literary sources on the use of amber -- Amber medicine, amber amulets -- The bronze age -- Early iron age and the orientalizing period -- The archaic and afterward -- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis -- The production of ancient figured amber objects -- Catalogue -- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum / Jeff Maish, Herant Khanjian, and Michael Schilling. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
"This catalogue provides a general introduction to amber in the ancient world followed by detailed catalogue entries for fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. The volume concludes with technical notes about scientific investigations of these objects and Baltic amber"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
J. Paul Getty Museum -- Catalogs.
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J. Paul Getty Museum. |
| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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| Subject |
Art objects. |
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California -- Los Angeles. |
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Art objects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Catalogs.
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Art objects, Etruscan -- Catalogs.
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Art objects, Ancient -- Catalogs.
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Art objects, Ancient. |
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Amber art objects -- Catalogs.
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Amber art objects. |
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Collection catalogs.
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Collection catalogs.
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Electronic books. .
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Catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Schilling, Michael (Michael Roy), contributor.
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Khanjian, Herant, contributor.
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Maish, Jeffrey, contributor.
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J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Causey, Faya. Ancient carved ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019 9781606066355 (DLC) 2019981057 |
| ISBN |
9781606066355 |
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9781606066348 |
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